Most devs use a text editor that’s at least a few notches above Notepad. Some even go the whole hog and use an IDE. But it’s amazing how much of our tools we just don’t use.

I couldn’t live without multiple cursors nowadays. I can search for a regex, drop a cursor on each instance and rewrite hundreds of lines at once. It’s like my own interactive sed. And yet, some are happy to just make the change on each line manually.

Programmers are lazy. It’s our most important trait.

So I’m going to start a) learning some more functionality. I want to explore packages, try and take everything I spend a few minutes doing manually each day and get my editor to do it for me. Whether this means increasing my snippet bank or finding a new way to hop between references.

And b) I’m going to try and share some of this knowledge. Within 383 we’re planning a Dev Day, kind of like an informal show-and-tell for devs so we’re all up to speed now we’re growing as a team. And of course I’m going to post stuff on here.

So until then, keep on learning your tools.